stupid
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“You can pay some stupid broker,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 4, 2026
There have been, it seems, a thousand flashes in the pan: Beto O’Rourke’s rolled-up shirtsleeves, Anthony Weiner’s city-kid mouthiness, Graham Platner’s stupid little butch mustache.
From Slate β Oct. 27, 2026
Brands have taken notice too and Truran says she'd "be stupid" not to do deals but is selective.
From BBC β Oct. 22, 2026
“People reveal who they are over the five episodes. There’s an extraordinary amount of nuance, but if somebody’s saying something stupid, we have that too.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 16, 2026
“Look, I don’t want to be in your stupid club. Get over it,” I reply harshly.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 28, 2026
Harris was also tasked with responding to Trump’s second lie, which was subtler but stupider.
From Slate β Sep. 11, 2024
“When they need to make stupid stupider, they send me up. I’m part comedian, I’m part activist, I’m part artist. I just want a better society,” Stevens said.
From Seattle Times β Apr. 16, 2024
Other news reports more definitively declared that, yes, ChatGPT is becoming stupider.
From Scientific American β Aug. 2, 2023
Always they were the scrawniest or the ugliest or the dirtiest or the stupidest boys, picked on by everyone else, with no one left uglier or stupider than they but her.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
A cartoon maritime odyssey, powered by what Ricky Wilson called "the stupidest riff you ever heard", it became one of the first independent hits on the American new wave scene, selling more than 20,000 copies.
From BBC β Mar. 17, 2026
Some pundits might be calling it “the most important chart in the world,” Perkins said, but in reality, it is closer to “the stupidest chart in the world.”
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2025
That’s “completely bogus,” writes TS Lombard Managing Director Dario Perkins, who calls it “the stupidest chart in the world.”
From Barron's β Nov. 6, 2025
That is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 27, 2025
Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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